ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: Visit Amahl, hear Messiah ...
Posted: December 3, 2009 at 5:08 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — Also across the entertainment landscape this weekend:
Three kings journeying to worship the Christ child witness a Christmas miracle in the hovel of a crippled shepherd and his impoverished mother in Gian-Carlo Menotti’s one act opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, which the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Opera Theatre will stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Tickets to Friday’s benefit premiere honoring music department patron Mary Worthen are $50, including a champagne reception; for the Saturday and Sunday shows, $15, $5 for children and students. Call (501) 569-8993.
The Arkansas Choral Society, which has sung all or part of George Frideric Handel’s sacred oratorio Messiah every year since 1930, will put on a somewhat extended performance marking the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death in partnership with the University of Arkansas at Monticello Concert Choir and members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, 7 p.m. Friday at First Pentecostal Church, 1401 Calvary Road (just off Interstate 40), North Little Rock. Kent Skinner conducts. Tickets are $15, $8 for students with ID, free for children under 12. Call (501) 376-8484.
David Glaze will conduct the 60-voice River City Men’s Chorus in songs and carol settings, sacred and secular, in its “Holiday! 2009” concerts, 3 p.m. Sunday, 7 p.m. Monday and Thursday, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 1101 N. Mississippi St., Little Rock. Pianists Linda Holzer and Naoki Hakutani will play four-hand piano accompaniment on three songs. Admission is free; doors open an hour before each performance. Call (501) 377-1080 or visit www.rivercitymen schorus.com .
The South Arkansas Symphony will perform Howard Blake’s music for the short animated film The Snowman, based on the children’s book by Raymond Briggs, while the film screens at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the El Dorado Municipal Auditorium, 100 W. Eighth St., El Dorado. Joining conductor Kermit Poling and the orchestra will be the El Dorado and Camden Fairview high school choirs and the First Methodist Church Bell Choir. The program will also include traditional Christmas favorites and an audience sing a-long. Tickets are $15 ($20 at the door), $10 for senior citizens, $5 for students, free for children. Support for the concert comes from the Murphy Foundation, the city of El Dorado and the Arkansas Arts Council. Call (870) 862-0521 or visit www.South ArkansasSymphony.org.
The Harding University-Community Orchestra and the Harding String Quartet will give a concert at 7 p.m. today in the Administration Auditorium at Harding in Searcy. Ashley Calcote will be the soloist in the Concertino for Clarinetby Carl Maria von Weber. Michael Chance will also conduct the orchestra of Harding students, local professionals and advanced string students from the Searcy Community School of Music in arrangements of “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” “The Holly and the Ivy,” “Deck the Halls,” “Stille Nacht” and “Sussex Carol,” plus the Fantasia on Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Admission is free. Call (501) 279-4343.
Ouachita Baptist University vocal, instrumental, theater and dance students will perform for the School of Fine Arts’ annual Festival of Christmas at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Jones Performing Arts Center at OBU in Arkadelphia. Tickets are $5. Call (870) 245-5563 or visit obu.edu/finearts.
The Act2! Community Theater Group will stage The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge by Mark Brown, based on characters from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, at 8 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Ritz Civic Center, 306 W. Main St., Blytheville. Tickets are $5. Call (870) 762-1744.
Weekend, Pages 37 on 12/03/2009
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